RQ00100 - Strategic Business Analyst

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Job Title:

RQ00100 - Strategic Business Analyst

06 month contract

Duration:

2026-05-18 - 2026-10-30

Working Status:

Remote (The work must stay within Canada)

Location:

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Project Description The Government of the Northwest Territories is seeking an experienced business analyst to assist with the development of several IT proposals on a 6-month term. Projects areas include public housing, digital archives, legal registries, grants & funding administration, and identity management services.

Experience

levels

must be:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in a business analyst role
• 5+ years working in an IT or software development environment

The following are

desirable

and will be evaluated:

• Experience with legal registries, such as corporate, land title, property, etc..
• Experience with selection and implementation of cloud or SaaS services
• Experience with financial workflows and ERP/accounting integration
• Experience managing bodies of requirements for large custom software suites
• Experience with business process improvement techniques and tools
• Experience with gathering requirements for the design of Business Intelligence products and dashboards
• Experience interfacing with developers, translating business requirements into technical features and use cases
• Experience working on options analysis for large capital investments, especially in the public sector
• Experience in the design of identity, privacy, authentication or security services
• Certification in a recognized business analysis framework, such as BABOK

Responsibilities could include but not be limited to:

• Develop and document statements of requirements for considered alternatives.
• Perform business analyses of functional requirements to identify information, procedures, and decision flows.
• Evaluate existing procedures and methods, identify and document items such as database content, structure, and application subsystems.
• Develop data dictionary
• Define and document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application subsystems, to external systems, and between new and existing systems.
• Identify candidate business processes for re-design, prototype potential solutions, provide trade-off information and suggest a recommended course of action. Identify the modification to the automated processes.
• Establish acceptance test criteria with Client.
• Support and sue the selected departmental methodologies.

Proposed Approach/ Understanding of Work

Candidates must respond to the following questions to demonstrate their understanding of the work and the applicability of their experience. Your experience should be cited as specifically as possible, although company and product details are not required.

Please upload the response to these questions in a separate attachment.

• Describe a time when you worked as a business analyst for a cloud, SaaS or managed service implementation. What were some of the unique challenges of this sort of implementation?
• How would you approach developing requirements for a reusable, enterprise solution - that might be used by 10 different business units with similar needs. What would you do differently than if you were working with just a single business unit?
• Describe a time when you worked on requirements and business process design for a business process involving approvals, financial integration, accounting, and similar highly regulated, sensitive transactions. What are some special risks, issues, considerations and techniques from a business analysis perspective?